A LIVERPOOL woman whose baby was buried in a mass grave has six weeks to arrange forensic tests.

If Jean Hodson, 52, from Hillfoot Avenue, Hunts Cross, fails to meet the deadline, the unidentified remains of her son Phillip will be reburied with remains taken from a multiple grave at Everton cemetery in May 2003.

All the babies were involved in the Liverpool organ retention scandal.

The grave was opened at Mrs Hodson's request to find her son's body and rebury him nearer her home. But because of identity problems the babies' remains have been in a city funeral parlour ever since.

Two were later identified by their bracelets but the others were illegible.

In a letter to Mrs Hodson, Dale Willis, Liverpool's cemetries and crematoria manager, said: " Unless positive steps are taken to arrange forensic tests within the next six weeks, I will have no alternative but to arrange for the remains to be respectfully reburied."

A cemeteries spokes-woman said: "It's important that timescales are set asa mark of respect for all the babies and families."

Mrs Hodson, must pay the bill for DNA testing or for investigations into wristbands, which would cost #500. She has asked coroner Andre Rebello to review the case. He has agreed.